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The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:33 am
by Eredalis
Greetings!

I have a really unusual question.
Is there a way, to deactivate the cheat codes in StarCraft via modding?

Thanks to all who answer to this mystery...  :D

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:45 am
by Legion
Eredalis wrote: Greetings!

I have a really unusual question.
Is there a way, to deactivate the cheat codes in StarCraft via modding?

Thanks to all who answer to this mystery...  :D
No, I don't think so. I think the cheats are hardcoded in the game.

You can design unique 'consequences' through triggering, but that's about as far as you can go.

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:02 am
by poiuy_qwert
Legion is mostly correct. It is hardcoded so unless you want to get into plugins or custom FG EXE edits there is no way.

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:30 am
by Eredalis
Ok, thank you, guys!  8)

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:42 pm
by Symmetry
Isn't it possible to change the input text for them? I thought I remembered someone having done that a long. long time ago.

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:01 pm
by Eredalis
Yeah, it's absolutely no problem to change only the text message. And you referred to The Bob Levels II, Symmetry, where a special text shows up, when you cheating... ;D

My hope was to deactivate the cheat codes in order to take care that there is no problems with the triggers of a singleplayer scenario.
Nevertheless, thank you all for your support.  ;)

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:02 pm
by Symmetry
I said 'input text', not 'displayed text'.

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:43 am
by Eredalis
I said 'input text', not 'displayed text'.
Oh, uh... hehehe  ^^'
Sorry, Symmetry! Now I've got it... :D

But unfortunately I don't know how this can be useful for this matter.
If someone has an idea or way to achieve the goal that I'm looking for, please, post it here...

Cheers!
- Eredalis

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:41 pm
by Lavarinth
Yes, I could of also sworn you could adjust the text required to be inputted.

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:24 pm
by poiuy_qwert
It requires modifying the EXE and yeah people have done it before. The cheat codes are hardcoded as checksums (dunno which checksum) so you cant just search "give me the money" with ArtMoney either.

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:09 am
by Death_Wing
Quite honestly, I'm making my first mod that probably won't go all the way and if it does, won't get into CC...
But if someone cheated in my mod... I honestly wouldn't care, cause they are ruining the game for themselves. I don't use cheats for this very reason. If I can't pass 1 part I would keep trying until I just leave it and come back later.If you cheat you take the challenge out of it and also you could ruin some dire triggering...(I remember the first time I cheated.... 4 years ago... SC:BW......Last mission Protoss....Very sad skills back then.ROFL)
But if I edited the Text heres what I would do ;)

Show Me The Money Displayed Text:
"You got tons of minerals.. now go kill those massed Carriers heading here!"

Operation Cwal Displayed Text:
"OOOOOO so fast! Oh wait, those Mutalisks are FASTA!"

Power Overwhelming Displayed Text:
"Well done you just ruined the fun...no Cookie for you!"

I wonder what else there is......

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:33 pm
by coko
Well there are certain techniques that can be used. Thus the money situation, does it instantly update the value? Because you could have something tick over that would freak out when you jumped 10,000 suddenly.

Power overwhelming could be beaten with some unit of yours that gets created and must be destroyed in some corner of the map within like 2 seconds, and if not, cheating.

Same for others generally.

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:54 pm
by Whiplash!
Try to make it fun so people won't want to cheat

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:55 am
by Death_Wing
Whiplash! wrote: Try to make it fun so people won't want to cheat
But you must remember... fun can also be hard, and some people don't like putting in the extra effort!

Re: The Cheat Codes for StarCraft: Brood War

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:07 am
by bajadulce
There is an easy way to disable cheats in Single Player, but am not going to disclose.. haha.  It's nothing that complicated, but it works guaranteed.  This is of course pertaining to "mods". 

Planar Erratus will be released in less than 10 days.  It will hold my solution to this question and be easy to discover for those interested in looking.